The Baby Should Eat With His Hands

At age of about 6 months babies start to eat some pieces and he begin to take them from your hands. By 7 months your baby is acquiring greater skills with their hands and fingers to get food to the mouth, and will initially take the food with the whole hand and push it with the palm of the hand. Over time babies will improve their skills and be able to catch food with their fingers and take it easy in the mouth.

Some families allow babies to take food with their hands freely, but others reject this practice. All of this is extremely bad, and the most beneficial way to feed your baby is to use spoon and simultaneously allow him to take some food with his hands.

Additionally you can provide snacks so that he can take with his hands, such as pieces of bread, cereal, fruit, vegetables, pasta, cheese and etc. You should avoid giving your baby hard foods like grapes, candy and etc, because baby tends to chew food before swallow it, and these foods can choke. ALWAYS be with your baby while giving him foods and never let him eat alone.

Breastfeeding "Colostrum"

Colostrum is a viscous substance has a light yellow color, contains many proteins, minerals, vitamins, calories and immune agents that provide protection to the newborn against viruses, bacteria and germs that are exposed after birth.

Colostrum produce in highest concentration early days, so it is recommended to place the baby to the breast immediately after birth. The immediate breastfeeding strengthens the bonds between mother and son, helps the placenta to separate easily and the baby's sucking stimulates the mammary glands to produce milk in few days.

The baby has a very delicate digestive system and colostrum is digestible easily. The production is small but contains enough to feed the baby in first few days until the arrival of milk. It will help to eliminate excess bilirubin, preventing and/or reversing jaundice, another characteristic of colostrum is maintaining the level of sugar in the blood. The mother passed to her newborn the immunological agents in colostrum, therefore baby become protected from diseases of the medium in which they live.

The amount of food an infant receives depends on the production of the mother. Some women do not have milk in the beginning while others have plenty of milk even before birth, if you do not have milk you can put the baby to suck your breast and this will encourage production.

During the first 2 or 3 days the baby can be fed with only 7 or 8 milliliters of colostrum. By the third day, when transition occurs in the production of colostrum milk; the baby will be feed by 30 to 60 milliliters so you can feed him in periods of 2 ½ to 3 hours.